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What’s Your Favorite? Activity Sheet

McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Grade 2, Chapter 8

Name:                                                       Date:                           

McGraw-Hill Math
What’s Your Favorite?

Favorite Sports
http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/jacob_wismer/leahy/2001/graphs/ryan.jpg

What's your favorite animal? See what these children said!

Use the chart or the graph to answer the questions.

  1. Which animal is the class favorite?                                                             


  2. From which data display did you get your answer for question 1?
    Explain why.                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                           


  3. Which animals got 3 votes?                                                                         


  4. How many more students like dogs than tigers?                                         


  5. How many students voted in all?                                                                 


  6. Does the class like lions or giraffes better? How do you know?               

                                                                                                                            


  7. What is the range of the numbers?                                                            


  8. What is the mode of the numbers?                                                                


  9. Look at the story. What is the mistake in the story?                                     

                                                                                                                             


  10. It's your turn! Choose your favorite animal and vote with your class.

    Complete the tally chart.

    11. Favorite Animals

     Animal   Tally   Total 
     Cat     
     Fish     
     Dog     
     Bird     
     Other     



  11. Now use the tally chart data to make a bar graph!

    12. Favorite Animals

     Cat                         
     Fish                         
     Dog                         
     Bird                         
     Other                         
       1   2    3    4     5     6     7     8     9     10   11   12

Math at Home

Today I explored a "favorite animals" bar graph at a Web site! I
answered questions about the graph. Then our class voted on our own favorite animals and made our own bar graphs! Our favorite animal is a                .

You can find out more about this topic by asking your teacher or parents to show you other Web sites.


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